Russian children “who don’t support the war” are posting songs glorifying the mercenaries of the Wagner group on Tik Tok:
https://twitter.com/Margaret4115221/status/1674251579732422656?t=-7v9nXp01DKZs2Zs8RS5FQ&s=19
Wagner is called “a private military company” but, as President Putin confirmed yesterday, they are funded 100% by the government. Wagner is known for recruiting soldiers among inmates serving long sentences for murder, rape, and other violent crimes. These teenagers from Novosibirsk find that admirable.
I can’t tell you, my friends, how much of this crap I’ve seen. Children, teenagers, young adults. War, war, war. Bloodthirsty, angry, rabid. They’ve lived their whole lives – literally, their whole lives – in a militarized society that’s in love with war. When they were babies, their moms dressed them in onesies that look like fatigues and decorated their prams with military insignia. They dressed up as soldiers for kids’ events at 4. They learned military marches in kindergarten. They studied how to put together a Kalashnikov in second grade. They heard how you and I and everybody else in the West wants to murder them every day their whole lives.*
The belief that children in Russia can’t want war comes from a very good place. People who think so are excellent people. They can’t imagine complete depravity because they aren’t depraved. But this is what was done.
Now let’s think about what it will take to undo a lifetime of war-crazed conditioning and bring this generation of Russian children back to some form of normalcy.
* There’s extensive video evidence of all of this and I published quite a lot of it in 2014 and 2015 when nobody took me seriously with my warnings that this was going in a very bad direction.
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